Tag: united states
member name: Ethan G.
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January 29, 2009 11:48 AM EST --
Obama is fast finding out that you can't negotiate with fanatics, such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and House Republicans.
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May 08, 2008 12:49 PM EDT --
An article from Time attributes Hillary Clinton's virtually certain defeat to an overemphasis on experience in a change year, a failure to use the rules of the primary system as effectively as possible, . . .
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July 29, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Scorching heat, swarming insects, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, drought, fever. These could be coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Scientists warn that extreme weather events are likely to . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
The United States is full of technological nooks and crannies, bright new ideas and old ones that have never been fully utilized, oodles of potential innovation. An idea is useless, however, unless . . .
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May 14, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
In 1999, when the Senate rejected by 95-0 the Kyoto Climate Treaty designed to reduce global warming gasses, treaty opponents made a good point. Kyoto excluded developing countries, such as China . . .
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October 08, 2007 07:04 PM EDT --
This past weekend I embarked on a tour of solar homes in the Washington, DC area, which lets you see how real people use trend-setting environmental technology. The tour’s most prominent feature . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
The environment doesn’t recognize international boundaries. Vast dust storms from China blow over neighboring countries and reach as far as the United States. Israel and neighboring . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The U.S. Senate is debating a major environmental bill: The Climate Security Act. Unfortunately this bill is fatally flawed because it uses the convoluted, easily manipulated cap-and-trade process . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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April 07, 2008 02:58 PM EDT --
My wife and I recently had the privilege of viewing our four legged hopping friends in all of their diversity at the exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, at the National Geographic Museum (in downtown . . .
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November 03, 2008 09:30 AM EST --
The Bush administration is in a last minute rush to cut out environmnental regulations: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/pl_nm/us_bush . There seems something undemocratic about this--true Bush . . .
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November 10, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
Upon swearing the oath of office on January 20, Obama will immediately face three major crises: The economy; the multiple wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on terrorism; and the environment. Of the . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading James Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, which includes a powerful analysis of our environmental dangers along with a visionary approach to solving them. Unlike . . .
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August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Unlike most environmentalists, I would support drilling for oil along America’s coastlines, as I’ve written before. However such drilling needs to be part of a comprehensive package including renewable . . .
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November 24, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
Automobiles, Innovation, and the Obama Economic Plan
The real action in automobile innovation has not been coming from the Big Three, according to a recent NPR Science Friday . Rather, small, . . .
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July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
Due to galloping prices, instability in the Middle East, and environmental dangers, energy is a huge issue in the presidential campaign. So what are McCain and Obama's positions and how effective . . .
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January 14, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
I've had chronic rhinitis--that is, nasal congestion--for as long as I can remember. Doctors have recommended a succession of drugs, including pills and inhalers, to treat the symptoms. A month or . . .
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